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Victoria Manganiello tells us about a social change project that invites artists to apply their creativity to making recipes for a better world. 

You Stir the Pot: Recipes for change

Victoria Manganiello tells us about a social change project that invites artists to apply their creativity to making recipes for a better world. 

By Victoria Manganiello

Serendouce Crafts commissioned Nishijin brocade maker Kohei Murata to apply the lustrous kimono textile technique to a set of chopsticks.

A kimono for food: Hikibaku chopsticks for honoured guests

Serendouce Crafts commissioned Nishijin brocade maker Kohei Murata to apply the lustrous kimono textile technique to a set of chopsticks.

By Serendouce Crafts


See a list of all articles from our Tiempo profundo ✿ Deep time issue here.

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Callum Robinson ✿ Ingrained - D Wood finds a book by a Scottish woodworker that powerfully evokes a well-crafted life.
honor freeman ✿ The power of a backstory - The life and work of this South Australian ceramicist is a model for how to build a meaningful practice.
Kannadi Cupboard: Summer evenings and glass cabinets - Prasanna and Keerthana Alageshan gathered images and objects from glass cabinets across India to reflect the gamut of domestic preciousness.
Henna, a traveller of time and tradition - In choosing henna as her medium, Samika Rao must continually re-create her work, reflecting natural cycles.
Cups of memory: Individuals within the collective - Jessica Hemmings is moved by an installation of coffee cups to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
Johanna De Maine and Tatsuya Tsutsui ✿ Ukiyo - Our August laurel goes to Johanna De Maine and Tatsuya Tsutsui for the sublime floating world of "Ukiyo".

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Current exhibitions

Crafting Life: Stories from the Japanese Studio
Japan Foundation (Sydney)
11 April - 27 September 2025
Contemporary Project 14: Betsabeé Romero
Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, Texas)
14 June - 4 January 2026
Whakakotrahi/Coalescence. - Solo Exhibition by Helen Harvey
From out of the blue (South Taranaki)
31 July - 8 September 2025
Birdland - works from a Naracoorte Artist Residency by Thea Katauskas
Walkway Gallery (Bordertown, South Australia,)
10 August - 12 September 2025
honor freeman: familiar & strange
Stockroom (Kyneton)
16 August - 21 September 2025
Xingu: Indigenous Reflections in Contemporary Design
A CASA museu do objeto brasileiro (São Paulo)
16 August - 26 October 2025
Matters of Time: Contemporary Metal Practices
UNSW Galleries (Sydney)
29 August - 16 November 2025
Fathers of sons
Kannadi Cupboard (Chennai)
30 August - 31 August 2025
"On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival"
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago)
6 September - 15 March 2026

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